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Zwischen Schutz und Scham? Konfliktbedingte Flüchtlingssiedlungen, Gewalt und Geschlechterverhältnisse
Between Protection and Shame? Conflict-induced Refugee Settlements, Violence and Gender Relations
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Abstract This article discusses how gender relations change in refugee camps and the role sexual and gender-based violence plays. The majority of refugees are displaced due to conflicts, making refugee camps post-conflict spaces. Despite protection and assistance measures, such camps are criticized for preva... view more
This article discusses how gender relations change in refugee camps and the role sexual and gender-based violence plays. The majority of refugees are displaced due to conflicts, making refugee camps post-conflict spaces. Despite protection and assistance measures, such camps are criticized for prevailing restrictions and the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence. Based on an empirical study of a refugee camp in Uganda, this article explores and analyses the structures in the refugee settlement, the forms and conditions of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as changing gender relations. It is argued, on the one hand, that diverse interdependent forms of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as victims and perpetrator structuresexist, and, on the other hand, that the violence is linked with the changing gender relations as well as traumatic experiences made in the refugee contexts, during conflict and flight.... view less
Keywords
refugee; violence; gender-specific factors; sexual abuse; gender relations; emergency shelter; living conditions; Uganda; East Africa
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Document language
German
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 235-259
Journal
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 35 (2015) 2
Issue topic
Dis-Placement: Flüchtlinge zwischen Orten
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v35i138-139.24298
ISSN
2366-4185
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed